Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynakill (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29989, -7.10418
- SMR number
- OF019-050----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The site (L 1.2m min.; Wth 2.35m; D 0.08m) has an apparent N-S orientation and consists of irregularly laid brushwood (diam. 0.012-0.051m) with occasional twigs. It also incorporates natural wood and roots. While the wood appears to be irregularly laid, the majority of elements are orientated approximately N-S with some pieces orientated NE-SW. Milling activity has damaged and dislodged most of the wood. Woodworking is evidenced by chisel and wedge points. The site is in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with occasional ericaceous remains and some Eriophorum.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.